Redefining local blocks with global blocks

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Being able to take items from outside the AutoCAD 2015 program and insert them into your drawing is an important skill. This tutorial will show you how to redefine local blocks with global blocks. You'll learn how to use Windows Explorer to alter and save global blocks, then insert them into your drawings. You'll also learn how to change outside files, and how to redefine and rotate them within your drawing.

…In this video, we will insert global blocks into the local…drawing file and in the process we will redefine a block definition.…Open the architectural6 sample file from the chapter 12 folder…and click the Insert button here on the Block panel.…This shows us a list of all the the…block definitions that are in this local drawing file.…I want to access a block that's not in this drawing though.…To do that, click on More Options.…

So, this is the insert dialog box and it has a drop…down right here that lists all the different blocks you have locally.…There's a dining chair block and it looks like that.…I'd like to insert something from outside this drawing, so I'll click Browse.…In the chapter 12 folder you'll find another drawing called chair.…Select it and click Open.…Check here and here so that we can…specify the insertion point and rotation on screen.…Click OK.…And here we have this chair.…

I'll click a point and then I can rotate it.…Now, I'd like to do that again, but this time…I want this chair design to replace this chair design.…

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5/29/2014

Scott Onstott has been using AutoCAD for 24 years and has witnessed its evolution into the world-leading application for computer-aided drafting and design. You too can harness its power and start creating detailed CAD drawings, whatever your field: design, architecture, or engineering. In this in-depth course, Scott shows you how to draw precise, measured 2D drawings—the basis of design communication the world over. Then he shows how to create and modify geometry, layers, blocks, attributes, dimensions, and layouts, and finally, how to start sharing your drawings with others.